In the “Nothing to do with Books” category we have this: NASA took a photo of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, with the Hubble Space Telescope, and the photo is ginormous. As in, it would take over 600 HD televisions just to look at it. It’s beautiful.
Let NASA send my name to Mars on a spaceship? HECK, YES.
2014-10-14 · by ·
NASA is sending a spacecraft back to Mars in December of 2014, and apparently, they’re taking names with them. No typo. Just the names are going. I sent mine in to be aboard the exploratory craft. Because you know: space. (h/t Eric James Stone)
Andy Weir’s The Martian Should Get a Hugo Nomination
2014-07-14 · by ·
If Andy Weir isn’t up for the Hugo next year, then scifi fandom doesn’t deserve good fiction anymore, because The Martian is pure awesome sauce. Left behind on Mars after a freak dust storm puts a hole in his suit and buries him, Mark Watney–astronaut, biologist, engineer–knows that the odds are against him returning back to Earth […]
